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National Black Election Panel Study, 1984 and 1988 (ICPSR 9954)

Principal Investigator(s):Jackson, James S., University of Michigan. Research Center for Group Dynamics

Summary:

This survey focuses on the attitudes and political
preferences of the Black electorate during the 1984 and 1988
presidential elections. Questions regarding party identification,
political interest, and preferences and choices for president were
asked. In addition, respondents were asked about their feelings
concerning Jesse Jackson's campaigns for the presidency in 1984 and
1988 and the effect his campaigns had on the elections. Information on
race and gender issues, economic matters... (more info)

This survey focuses on the attitudes and political
preferences of the Black electorate during the 1984 and 1988
presidential elections. Questions regarding party identification,
political interest, and preferences and choices for president were
asked. In addition, respondents were asked about their feelings
concerning Jesse Jackson's campaigns for the presidency in 1984 and
1988 and the effect his campaigns had on the elections. Information on
race and gender issues, economic matters, quality of life, government
spending, political participation, and religion and church politics is
also included. Demographic information on respondents includes sex,
age, education, marital status, income, and occupation and industry.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

Jackson, James S. National Black Election Panel Study, 1984 and 1988. ICPSR09954-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09954.v1

Methodology

Sample:
Random-digit dialing. More information about the sampling
methodology is contained in the article "Telephone Sample Designs for
the U.S. Black Household Population," by Kathryn M. Inglis et al.,
which is provided within the study documentation.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1993-10-11

Version History:

2002-06-19 The codebook has been revised to correct errors.
The text for variables 3236-3261 and variables 4048-4101 had been
shifted.

1998-01-12 The codebook has been converted to a PDF file, and
minor changes were made to the SAS and SPSS data definition
statements.